Legally Insane - The Law is Funny

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Copyright Laws - Episode 26 Mar 26, 2018

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Reserve Clause - Episode 25 Mar 20, 2018

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The guys open the show joking about their previous careers and how their distaste for their old jobs led them to be comedians. Both of the guys are big sports fans and kick off the show discussing sports teams they have a mutual hatred for. This leads them to discussing Baseball laws and The Reserve Clause.

Highlights:

[04:00] – The reserve clause allowed teams to reserve their players for the year. Other teams tried to start signing these reserved players.
[07:40] – The Sherman Anti Trust Act tried to protect against business monopolies.
[09:00] – Federal Baseball vs. The National League
[18:02] – Danny Gardella left the MLB to play for the "outlaw" Mexican League in 1946
[20:08] – Flood vs. Kuhn in 1972
[25:50] – Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger did an 11th hour flip-flop and killed Floods case.
[32:05] – Flood is responsible for the lot of the financial success of current players.

The Takeaway:

The Supreme Court is capable of wrong doing.

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Safe for Work teaser Mar 19, 2018

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Today we bring you a bonus episode from a brand new podcast Matt is hosting called "Safe for Work". The workplace can get crazy and messy and the new podcast Safe For Work takes your calls about the workplace and helps you get through Mondayto Friday with a little less stress, more confidence and a little more fun.

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The RICO Act- Nixon, the Mob, Hells Angels, Bob Mueller and Trump - Episode 24 Mar 13, 2018

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Legally Insane – Episode 24

Today's agenda is RICO; The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Enacted by President Nixon, the Rico Act has been responsible for bringing down and trying to bring down The Hells Angeles, The Catholic Church, The Key West PD, Donald Trump and many more.

Highlights:

[04:05] – Rico (The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) was passed in 1970 to pursue the mafia. The idea was to tie all their crimes together in one case.
[08:44] – The Rico Act was used to go after the Hells Angels for their various crimes. This culminated with prosecutors giving immunity to certain members, for ratting on their own gang mates.
[13:48] – Robert Muller, the district attorney at the time, ended up dropping the Hells Angeles case.
[15:26] – The government has tried to take down the Catholic Church for Pedophilia, under the Rico Act.
[18:08] – In the 1980's The Key West Police Department was deemed a Criminal Enterprise and was running a cocaine racket.
[24:42] –Trump was sued under RICO for not delivering on his Trump University Promise.

The Takeaway:

The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them in doing, closing a perceived loophole that allowed a person who instructed someone else to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because they did not actually commit the crime personally.

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Child Marriage Laws - Episode 23 Mar 06, 2018

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Legally Insane – Episode 23

The guys have a live show coming up tomorrow March 8th at The Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles. They're going to be recording a live podcast. Guy Branum from True TV and Dana Gould from the Simpsons will also be performing. Show starts at 7:30pm; if you're in LA come to the show. That being said this today's pod will be about Child Marriage Laws, buckle up.

Highlights:

[03:58] – Last week, Kentucky residents voted and shut down a bill that was aimed protecting 16 year olds from getting married.
[09:20] – Over 200,000 children under the age of 18 were married in the last 18 years.
[10:42] – The legal Federal age for marriage is 18 but most states allow 16 or 17 year olds, with parental consent.
[11:24] – Tennessee has no minimum legal age for marriage. In 2001 courts allowed 3 ten-year girls to be married.
[14:24] – Afghanistan has stricter marriage laws than a lot of US states.
[20:56] – Sherry Johnson of Florida was raped, pregnant and married by 11. She's now fighting to end child marriage in America.
[26:08] – In New Jersey 2,000 minors have been married in the past 15 years.
[33:31] – The youngest person ever to get married was 10 years old, in Tennessee.
[35:50] – The people that wind up in these marriages are more likely to drop out of high school and live in poverty. 100% live in sadness.

The Takeaway – Don't be Tennessee.

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Horrible Supreme Court Justices- The Four Horsemen vs FDR - Episode 22 Feb 27, 2018

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Legally Insane – Episode 22

Most people don't think about the origins of certain laws. At some point in history somebody had to be first. Somebody had to screw up! In this episode we're going to take you back to The Great Depression and discuss Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" and the worst Supreme Court Justice of all time.

Highlights:

[01:08] – The Great Depression started on October 29th, 1929, under President Hoover. The stock market crashed and the nations money supply diminished.
[02:33] – FDR came into office after Hoover and started "The New Deal". This was a series of experimental programs and projects aimed at reform and relief.
[06:30] – By 1933 FDR had ended prohibition and signed a number of bills into action.
[09:50] – On August 14th 1935 FDR signed the Social Security Act, which was an insurance program designed to pay workers a continuous income after retirement at the age of 65.
[14:24] – By the late 1930's the Supreme Court was filled with conservative judges who began striking down some of Roosevelt's programs. So, in 1937 FDR announced a plan to add liberal justices to the court to neutralize the conservatives. This was called "The Court Packing Scheme".
[22:33] – FDR issued an executive order confiscating all gold coins and bullion.
[29:33] – The minimum wage was $12.44 a week in 1937.
[31:18] – James Clark McReynolds, one of the worst Supreme Court Justices of all time.
[45:48] – In 1941 the US recovered from the recession because of Pearl Harbor, not the new deal.

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Cloning Laws - There's No Federal Law Against Making Another You! - Episode 21 Feb 20, 2018

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Legally Insane – Episode 21

Shout out to super fan Josh Benjamin, an immigration attorney in New Jersey! Thanks for listening. We're 21 episodes in and the podcast is picking up steam. The guys just love spending time together. Speaking of which, Matt enjoys spending so much time with Tony that sometimes he wishes there was 2 of him. Let's clone Tony!

Highlights:

[03:32] – 1952 scientists demonstrated they could remove the nucleus from a Frogs egg, replace it with the nucleus of an embryonic frog cell and get the egg to develop into a tadpole.
[05:55] – In 1986 a sheep was cloned by a nuclear transfer from embryonic cells.
[06:46] – In 1998 50 mice were cloned, 2000 pigs and goats and in 2001 scientists cloned a 6 celled human embryo and 5 bulls.
[09:07] – In 2002 a huge advancement happened and a company called "Clonade" out of Japan, claimed they managed to produce the first human clone. A girl named Eve. A year later they claimed to have cloned the first baby boy. None of this was ever confirmed.
[12:22] – A couple weeks ago, in early 2018 the first primates were cloned.
[14:43] – Cloning isn't illegal under federal law
[18:33] – In 2011 a dentist named Michael Zuk bought part of John Lennon's Molar Tooth in an auction. His goal is to clone lennon.
[25:20] – Cloning state laws: 17 states have banned cloning humans, in 33 it's legal.
[29:33] – The American Quarter Horse Association is in the middle of a 3-year-old lawsuit, regarding cloned horses. They don't want cloned racehorse's competing.
[34:49] – There are 70 countries that have banned human cloning; the USA isn't one of them.

The Takeaway – The law unsettled and lots of developments are taking place in the cloning world. The first primate was just cloned and it looks like the door is swinging open for the cloning of organs and other human anatomy for the advancement of the human species.

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California Eugenics Law - Episode 20 Feb 13, 2018

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Tony kicks off the show congratulating Matt on his recent marriage. The guys then start off discussing Eugenics laws. Eugenics is the study of genetics superiority. California was on the forefront of Americas Eugenics movement and supported many heinous acts.

Highlights:

[03:23] – Eugenics is the pseudo science aimed at improving the human race
[04:22] – In 1909 CA adopted these laws and began experiments
[05:10] – Leo Stanley, chief surgeon at San Quentin prison, began some horrific experiments to "rejuvenate masculinity" One of these experiments included replacing guys balls with animals balls to have his masculinity renewed
[12:50] – Carnegie family, the Rockefellers and the Harmon railroad fortune, funded the eugenics movement. Kellogg founded the race betterment foundation.
[15:03] – States began passing laws that prevented epileptic, feeble minded and people deemed imbeciles from marrying
[15:15] – 1927 Buck vs Bell
[19:05] – State fairs held "Better Baby Contests"
[21:57] – By 1933 CA was producing literature about eugenics and sterilization and began sending it to the Germans. Hitler realized California was going what he wanted to do
[23:59] – In 1934 there were Nazi Scientific Exhibits at the LA County Museum
[24:43] – In 1978 the US passed the Federal Sterilization Regulation which prohibited a lot of sterilization practices

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OJ Revisited - "if" HE DID IT - Episode 19 Feb 06, 2018

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Matt starts the show by talking about one of the biggest and most publicized court cases of all time, The OJ Simpson trial. They make a few jokes about the recent mini series that aired, his book, and then delve into some interesting facts about OJ, his lawyers and the jury.

Highlights:

[04:01] – June 12th 1994 the world watched the high speed chase across LA
[05:38] – OJ assembles a "Dream Team" of lawyers to defend him for allegedly killing his wife
[09:21] – While being held in jail during his trial he sold his NFL merchandise/trading cards and other items to pay his lawyers
[15:31] – OJ made 3 million dollars while in prison by signing his memorabilia and selling it
[16:15] – The OJ jury was sequestered for 8.5 months
[21:51] – DNA evidence was still new technology that not many understood it. Police mishandled a lot of the blood samples.
[27:27] – OJ went to Nicole's funeral and kissed her dead body in the open casket
[33:31] – OJ did get convicted in the civil trial
[38:09] – Matt and Tony are doing some live comedy at The Hollywood Improv on March 8th Stay tuned for details!

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DUI Laws - Breathalyzer and Other Even More Inaccurate Tests - Episode 18 Jan 30, 2018

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Matt and Tony kick off the show reflecting on a recent night of drinking together. Tony tells the audience how that night he had a little too much to drink and got nabbed at a checkpoint while riding his Vespa home. The guys joke around it a little, while trying to not make light of the situation. They then Segway into DUI laws and the history surrounding them.

Highlights:

[03:09] – 1910 New York became the first state to adopt drunk driving laws
[04:52] – In the 1930s committees were tasked with making roads safer. The American Medical Association began studying what was causing the rise in accidents. They set the original BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) at .15. They had to draw actual blood to get the reading
[11:12] – In 1938 Dr. Rolla Harger created the first blood alcoholmeasuring device that used a breath sample. One blew into a balloon to get the reading
[18:05] – In 1975 field sobriety tests were created. This was a set of tests administered on the road. Things like standing on one leg, following a pen with your eyes, etc…
[21:54] – In 1967 Ohio began to issue special license plates for DUI offenders
[29:54] – Myths on how to beat the breathalyzer
[36:31] – In 2016 over 10,000 people died in drunk driving accidents
[38:16] – 1.8 million drivers were arrested in 2015 for DUI

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